NEW ECONOMY

Istanbul, Türkiye, April 12, 2026 – Istanbul Blockchain Week, organized by Web3 marketing agency EAK Digital is set to return for its fifth edition on June 2nd-3rd, 2026, at the Hilton Bomonti Hotel. Following last year’s success, this year’s...

A new XRP market thesis is circulating ahead of the Senate markup of the CLARITY Act on Thursday, May 14, 2026, at 10:30 AM ET, with XRP community member and developer Vincent Van Code arguing that regulatory clarity could...

Ether treasury company Bitmine Immersion Technologies has slowed the pace of its Ether purchases after previously increasing its buying rate and acquiring more than 100,000 tokens over the last three weeks.Bitmine said on Monday that it purchased 26,659 ETH...

Crypto majors held their ground on Tuesday even as the macro tape turned sharply against risk assets.Bitcoin BTC$81,254.42 traded just over $81,000 in Asian morning hours Tuesday after briefly touching $82,026 overnight. Solana (SOL) and DOGE$0.1100 were the standouts...

Key TakeawaysThe OCC conditionally approved Augustus Bank N.A. this week, making it the first AI-native stablecoin clearing bank to reach this stage in the U.S.Ferdinand Dabitz, 25, a Thiel Fellow, will become the youngest CEO of a federally chartered...

Key points:Bitcoin is struggling to rise above $84,000, but the bulls remain in control as long as the price remains above the 20-day EMA.Several major altcoins have pulled back, indicating that the bears remain sellers on rallies.Bitcoin (BTC) has...

As an economics undergraduate at Duke University in the 1990s, Amy Hood had no master plan that would one day land her the top finance job at one of the world’s biggest tech companies. In fact, now Microsoft’s chief financial...